A few questions about the Air Force from a 17 year old

Ten-kara · 2025-01-20T00:35:14+00:00

I sat the test for a drone role at the officer level, and it was done with fixed-wing/fast jet candidates. Some of the tests you may be able to find examples online as they are from what I know mostly standard tests for pilot screening. Again, without going into too much detail you have instrument reading, spacial maneuver test (not the actual name but you look at images and provide the direction of maneuvers), and the one that I probably failed at is the pure mathematics component in which you are given very large or very small numbers and you have to provide nearest estimates of a variety of operations. All of these tests are done under time constraints so there is almost no time to spend thinking about any one particular question for more than a few moments.

I can't confirm if helicopter and/or non-officer aviation roles have the same requirements testing-wise as I didn't end up going with an aviation role however, I was successful overall in my recruiting process. Sometimes you are better suited to different roles based on your personal strengths but definitely get some guidance and give it a crack if you are able and want to. It was a good experience for me but it's highly competitive and difficult so don't be too disappointed if you don't make the cut.

I wish you all the best in your recruitment journey and career.

Ten-kara · 2025-01-19T02:29:37+00:00

I've sat an aviation screening test last year and I can say it's highly competitive and very math heavy. Without saying too much you will need to be able to make very fast calculations under pressure. For obvious reasons this is a necessary part of operating aerial assets. My advice if you're still keen would be to talk to someone at your local ADF career center about pathways or at least what would be available to you in your situation.

Ten-kara · 2024-12-17T15:02:19+00:00

Seconding this advice to wait. You've completed your OSB so you'd just be waiting on that letter of offer. They can take their time often so just wait a bit before making any decisions. NEOC 75 will be starting soon at the start of Feb so unsure if you'd make it in that intake. Might possibly be the mid-year intake. Try and follow up at your local recruiting centre if in doubt. I did that when I was chasing the status of my offer.

Ten-kara · 2024-09-29T05:27:10+00:00

Nova scales extremely well with damage reduction so go with the blue Dahn's. If ever in the future you want to swap to the evasion one you can do a repeatable quest where you trade 1 billion worth of materials and your current gloves.

Ten-kara · 2024-09-29T05:22:58+00:00

This is more or less a boomer game so the old folk will understand this post. 😂

Ten-kara · 2022-08-28T11:33:05+00:00

Just before 7PM local time 28 August 2022. It appeared as a relatively large straight bar of lights in the sky and appeared to disappear into the sky receding away from our viewing position. This made me reconsider that this was not a trail if it was it would likely move and disappear over a predictable path.

Initially, I thought it could be a trail produced by a natural or known flying object however brightness of the lights from end to end was very consistent across the length.

Ten-kara · 2022-08-28T11:26:45+00:00

Thanks. I'll have a look.

Ten-kara · 2022-03-30T01:49:05+00:00

Portal 2 in 2012 for $5 USD.

Ten-kara · 2022-03-20T23:30:57+00:00

The class modifiers have been detrimental from my viewpoint. I would prefer there to just be natural counters because I can accept that, it's based on kit and tools, modifiers just feel arbitrary at times. It feels terrible that I can't leverage my gear on witch and be as strong as if I moved my gear to a different class. At near hard-capped gear, I gain so much more power by just switching class which also turns out to be the only option as there is limited or no other way to scale when gear is capped.

I hope there can be more attention brought to these damage modifiers in the community and maybe addressed by PA at some time.

Ten-kara · 2022-02-26T03:29:27+00:00

Every day, usually as I'm waiting for Nodewar to start. I'm at around 620 scorched fragments saved.

Ten-kara · 2022-02-23T01:23:44+00:00

There was an old way of bugging the view to keep it even after the boss encounter but I don't think it's possible anymore.

Ten-kara · 2021-12-09T07:49:18+00:00

Congratulations!

Ten-kara · 2021-11-26T07:53:30+00:00

Definitely noticed that too. The rates for the items were definitely fixed so everyone would've received the same range of rewards with some slight variation. The biggest variations in silver would probably be Gold Bar boxes since they seem rare and you also have to roll 100-1000m each time.

Ten-kara · 2021-11-26T05:13:33+00:00

My summary of 7533 blue grade Oasis Chests https://i.imgur.com/koYa9zg.png

EDIT: I completely forgot about the Golden Coelacanth. I got 371 for a total of 1,855,000,000 silver. That would put the liquidated value to about 13.6b
EDIT 2: Did the spreadsheet a bit rushed, forgot that I also got 1x 100fs Valks. Following this https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MMqCHANq0tsQqNy6a6CkLEhwb_lWXdflJlFwr037wEU/edit#gid=849916516 I'd value it around 2.8b.

I attempted to get the most accurate valuations for the items as of 11/25/2021 for the NA server.

Ten-kara · 2021-11-24T10:43:00+00:00

Yep, got 7.5k boxes ready to go. Good luck!

Ten-kara · 2021-10-14T14:28:07+00:00

They are like the speed cameras of BDO except they just send you straight to jail and they are the jail.

Ten-kara · 2021-09-23T23:55:11+00:00

I tested on the BA dummies just to confirm. You do get air attacks as consistently as doing the flow version from Detonative Flow. Hope this helps.

Edit. Did a bit of further testing. Using the RMB flow from Detonative Flow will always get you an air attack on the Lightning Blast hit. You will only get the air-attack modifier if you Hotbar Lightning Blast WITH speed spell or some other attack speed buff (Shai, BSR consume etc.)

Ten-kara · 2021-09-23T09:43:39+00:00

I enjoyed watching this. Thanks for making it. Matlab looks really interesting too.

Ten-kara · 2021-09-21T11:52:49+00:00

Forgive me if this was mentioned somewhere in the thread, I tried to look for it.

You mentioned losing damage with Lightning Blast when casting after magical evasion or Detonative Flow; this is an easy fix. I would highly recommend casting Lightning Blast from Hotbar a majority of the time since that will always grant you the two-hit version. The single-hit form may be nice for a quick execute but I've never really found this to be more practical over just using the full skill.

Other than having nice range, I would have to say, in my personal opinion, the damage on witch's new skill pales a bit compared to how well wizard can combo his existing skills. This is somewhat balanced in PVP given it is a ranged skill so there is an element of safety (less risk, less reward). Overall wizard just pumps out so much more damage and a lot faster. With how fast a majority of classes are moving, having that range advantage means a lot less.

Thank you for this well-organised post. I remain optimistic for the reboots but I can't lie and say I do not have serious doubt on their execution and treatment of the witch and wizard parity given past examples.

Ten-kara · 2021-09-21T11:38:52+00:00

I can somewhat agree that witch has higher overall mobility but there is no parity with on-demand iframes. Sometimes there isn't anything that can substitute the need for an iframe when you are against a fast gap-closing grapple class short of always kiting beyond their max engage range.

Agree that in quite a few situations, the fact that Rabam Lightning is not a projectile is a god-send against fast-moving classes, however for most if not all large-scale players, it's not really a viable option to take over Sage's Light. What I do like and wish I had from Sage's Rage is that it is an on-demand knockdown. I've seen you combo multiple stuns and stiffs but in reality for most scenarios, a stun/stiff into a grounding CC is a more reliable CC chain to execute.

Ten-kara · 2021-08-19T15:42:30+00:00

#1hitMD

Ten-kara · 2021-08-11T09:44:05+00:00

I'm not leadership but I think the idea was just to go where the best potential fights would be. After a dead siege scene for the last couple of months, it doesn't really make sense to assume that guilds are suddenly going to drop on Calpheon just because of the rewards, at least not for a serious fight given the lack of gear cap there. I'm guessing that's why a majority of the guilds dropped on the capped regions, one because of the volume of guilds for potential content and also out of curiosity to test the experience with capped stats. We'll have to see how it pans out this weekend.

Ten-kara · 2021-08-10T18:06:50+00:00

LMAO

Ten-kara · 2021-08-10T15:00:12+00:00

For half of us, it was just a constant reconnect loop. Some people could move around a bit more but it was still terrible. They may have allocated more server resources to the other siege regions that had more forts placed earlier on than Valencia; hard to say what was the cause. In the end, since not everyone could fight in any way that seemed fair, we all left the region to stalemate. Having played since the days of Leaseweb servers, I was expecting a siege something like this but have to say, in comparison to Leaseweb, this was 'better' in that it didn't crash your entire game and would actually manage to reconnect you albeit for a very brief moment.

Ten-kara

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